Building the Pacific Railway (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Building the Pacific Railway The performance was typically American - the eighth wonder of the world, and unsurpassed to this day. Heroes attended upon the march of the rails. Some died in line of duty, as far as the writer knows, every department official, save one, of construction times, is dead. The Ames monument, so long lonely and near forgotten upon the Sherman Summit of the Wyoming Black Hills, and the neglected pedestal of tri umph at distant Promontory, are punctuations in pages of historic endeavor by a host named and unnamed. The work itself, however, is not all forgotten. It was completed at the Close of one great war, and es commemorated at the Close of another. On May 10, 1919, there gathered at Ogden of Utah a remarkable concourse, representing the breadth and growth of the United States, who celebrated the semi-centennial of the driving of the Golden Spike. More remarkable, a thousand names were enrolled of men and women who, some of them as children, assisted in laying those rails that banded the continent and wedded the oceans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.